quadrillionn.adj.

Brit.

/kwɒˈdrɪljən/,

/kwəˈdrɪljən/, U.S.

/kwɑˈdrɪljən/

Forms: 1600s quatrilion, 1600s– quadrillion.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French quadrillion, quatrillion.

Etymology: < French quadrillion (1484 in Middle French in sense ‘a thousand times a thousand trillions’; also quatrillion, although this is apparently first attested later than the corresponding form in English: 1765) < quadri- quadri- comb. form + -illion (in million million n.).With the form quatrilion compare discussion at quadri- comb. form.

A. n.

Originally: the cardinal number equal to the fourth power of a million, represented by 1 followed by twenty-four zeros (10²⁴) (now chiefly British). Later also (originally U.S.): the cardinal number equal to the fifth power of a thousand, or 1 followed by fifteen zeros (10¹⁵). Also hyperbolically: an unspecified but very large number or amount.The displacement of the original sense by the later one is similar to that described for billion (see billion n.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > powers of a million

quadrilliona1690

quintilliona1690

trilliona1690

nonillion1690

octillion1690

septillion1690

sextillion1690

trimillion1707

decillion1709

centillion1754

sexillion1758

vigintillion1928

googol1940

googolplex1940

squillion1943

a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 14 Others..call the twenty-fifth place Quadrillion.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvi. 99 (table) Sextilions. Quintilions. Quatrilions. Trilions. Bilions.

1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 8 Then the 4th point from Units stands under Quadrillions.

1730 A. Malcolm New Syst. Arithm. 8 Quintillions, (or a Million of Quadrillions); Sextillions, (or a Million of Quintillions).

1795–8 T. Maurice Hist. Hindostan (1820) I. i. iv. 142 Two quadrillions..of lunar years.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xlix. 608 A grain of musk is said to be divisible into 320 quadrillions of parts, each of which is capable of affecting the olfactory nerves.

1873 M. Collins Miranda II. 161 At a rough reckoning you would have to give me a quadrillion of kisses among you.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Mar. 3/2 I wonder how many quadrillions, quintillions, sextillions there are of them [sc. locusts].

1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 44/1 Out of the quadrillions of words which American politics blew loose from their moorings before 1865, a few thousands..arranged themselves in the form of self-respecting literature.

1966 D. Sutherland Against Wind ii. vi. 102 While the larvae of the European eels drift helplessly across the Atlantic they are beset on all sides by birds and voracious fish, but their numbers are so vast that quadrillions of them survive.

1993 Daily Tel. 26 Nov. 17/1 Serbia's official rate for October—2,000 per cent—would have pushed the yearly figure to 450 quadrillion (or 45 followed by 16 zeroes).

1998 D. Bellos et al. tr. G. Ifrah Universal Hist. Numbers xxiv. 428/1 In British English, however, the term ‘billion’ is used for 10¹² (10⁹ being just ‘a thousand million’), and the multiplier used remains 10⁶, so that trillion = 10¹⁸ and quadrillion = 10²⁴.

B. adj.

Numbering or amounting to a quadrillion. Followed by a plural or collective noun and prefixed by the indefinite article or a multiplier.

ΚΠ

1857 H. Mann & P. E. Chase Arithmetic iii. 62 If 150 leaves of paper make a pile an inch high, and each leaf is is twice the thickness of a hair, what would be the extent of a quadrillion hair-breadths?

1913 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 76 174 The velocities after a quadrillion collisions would not perfectly fulfil the conditions of the normal law.

1952 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 281 46/1 In the United States, requirements for total energy..will double in twenty-five years... This will amount to 70.4 quadrillion Btu's.

1977 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Apr. 71/1 When n is 31, the total number of possible binary trees is 14,544,636,039,226,909, and each of these 14 quadrillion trees will be optimum for some set of assumed frequencies for the 31 words.

1991 A. Nikiforuk Fourth Horseman i. 4 The human body is held together by 10 quadrillion animal cells and 100 quadrillion (100,000,000,000,000,000) bacterial cells.

2005 N.Y. Times 20 Feb. 30/4 Unusual neutron stars known as magnetars..have extraordinarily strong magnetic fields, a quadrillion times as strong as Earth's.

Derivatives

quaˌdrillioˈnaire n. (also quadrillionnaire) [after millionaire n.] a person with assets worth at least a quadrillion (of dollars, pounds, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person > person who has large amount of money

jingle-boya1640

four-millioneer1667

plum1709

millionary1786

millionaire1795

money bag1820

millionista1843

trimillionaire1848

multimillionaire1858

billionaire1861

millioner1865

trillionaire1873

quadrillionairea1876

thousandaire1896

milliardaire1897

multibillionaire1906

zillionaire1926

multi1950

mega-millionaire1968

squillionaire1979

a1876 M. Collins Pen Sketches (1879) I. 172 A millionaire (we shall soon have billionaires, trillionaires, quadrillionaires).

1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1885) 174 Silver-mine millionnaires and Wall-street quadrillionnaires.

1935 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune 25 Mar. 5 Possibly the word quadrillionaire will become quite threadbare.

2003 London Rev. Bks. 21 Aug. 27/2 There is a suggestive piquancy to the notion of a quadrillionaire and a tax inspector falling for each other.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quadrillion
释义	quadrillionn.adj. Brit. /kwɒˈdrɪljən/, /kwəˈdrɪljən/, U.S. /kwɑˈdrɪljən/ Forms: 1600s quatrilion, 1600s– quadrillion. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French quadrillion, quatrillion. Etymology: < French quadrillion (1484 in Middle French in sense ‘a thousand times a thousand trillions’; also quatrillion, although this is apparently first attested later than the corresponding form in English: 1765) < quadri- quadri- comb. form + -illion (in million million n.).With the form quatrilion compare discussion at quadri- comb. form. A. n. Originally: the cardinal number equal to the fourth power of a million, represented by 1 followed by twenty-four zeros (10²⁴) (now chiefly British). Later also (originally U.S.): the cardinal number equal to the fifth power of a thousand, or 1 followed by fifteen zeros (10¹⁵). Also hyperbolically: an unspecified but very large number or amount.The displacement of the original sense by the later one is similar to that described for billion (see billion n.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > powers of a million quadrilliona1690 quintilliona1690 trilliona1690 nonillion1690 octillion1690 septillion1690 sextillion1690 trimillion1707 decillion1709 centillion1754 sexillion1758 vigintillion1928 googol1940 googolplex1940 squillion1943 a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 14 Others..call the twenty-fifth place Quadrillion. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvi. 99 (table) Sextilions. Quintilions. Quatrilions. Trilions. Bilions. 1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 8 Then the 4th point from Units stands under Quadrillions. 1730 A. Malcolm New Syst. Arithm. 8 Quintillions, (or a Million of Quadrillions); Sextillions, (or a Million of Quintillions). 1795–8 T. Maurice Hist. Hindostan (1820) I. i. iv. 142 Two quadrillions..of lunar years. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xlix. 608 A grain of musk is said to be divisible into 320 quadrillions of parts, each of which is capable of affecting the olfactory nerves. 1873 M. Collins Miranda II. 161 At a rough reckoning you would have to give me a quadrillion of kisses among you. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Mar. 3/2 I wonder how many quadrillions, quintillions, sextillions there are of them [sc. locusts]. 1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 44/1 Out of the quadrillions of words which American politics blew loose from their moorings before 1865, a few thousands..arranged themselves in the form of self-respecting literature. 1966 D. Sutherland Against Wind ii. vi. 102 While the larvae of the European eels drift helplessly across the Atlantic they are beset on all sides by birds and voracious fish, but their numbers are so vast that quadrillions of them survive. 1993 Daily Tel. 26 Nov. 17/1 Serbia's official rate for October—2,000 per cent—would have pushed the yearly figure to 450 quadrillion (or 45 followed by 16 zeroes). 1998 D. Bellos et al. tr. G. Ifrah Universal Hist. Numbers xxiv. 428/1 In British English, however, the term ‘billion’ is used for 10¹² (10⁹ being just ‘a thousand million’), and the multiplier used remains 10⁶, so that trillion = 10¹⁸ and quadrillion = 10²⁴. B. adj. Numbering or amounting to a quadrillion. Followed by a plural or collective noun and prefixed by the indefinite article or a multiplier. ΚΠ 1857 H. Mann & P. E. Chase Arithmetic iii. 62 If 150 leaves of paper make a pile an inch high, and each leaf is is twice the thickness of a hair, what would be the extent of a quadrillion hair-breadths? 1913 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 76 174 The velocities after a quadrillion collisions would not perfectly fulfil the conditions of the normal law. 1952 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 281 46/1 In the United States, requirements for total energy..will double in twenty-five years... This will amount to 70.4 quadrillion Btu's. 1977 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Apr. 71/1 When n is 31, the total number of possible binary trees is 14,544,636,039,226,909, and each of these 14 quadrillion trees will be optimum for some set of assumed frequencies for the 31 words. 1991 A. Nikiforuk Fourth Horseman i. 4 The human body is held together by 10 quadrillion animal cells and 100 quadrillion (100,000,000,000,000,000) bacterial cells. 2005 N.Y. Times 20 Feb. 30/4 Unusual neutron stars known as magnetars..have extraordinarily strong magnetic fields, a quadrillion times as strong as Earth's. Derivatives quaˌdrillioˈnaire n. (also quadrillionnaire) [after millionaire n.] a person with assets worth at least a quadrillion (of dollars, pounds, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person > person who has large amount of money jingle-boya1640 four-millioneer1667 plum1709 millionary1786 millionaire1795 money bag1820 millionista1843 trimillionaire1848 multimillionaire1858 billionaire1861 millioner1865 trillionaire1873 quadrillionairea1876 thousandaire1896 milliardaire1897 multibillionaire1906 zillionaire1926 multi1950 mega-millionaire1968 squillionaire1979 a1876 M. Collins Pen Sketches (1879) I. 172 A millionaire (we shall soon have billionaires, trillionaires, quadrillionaires). 1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1885) 174 Silver-mine millionnaires and Wall-street quadrillionnaires. 1935 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune 25 Mar. 5 Possibly the word quadrillionaire will become quite threadbare. 2003 London Rev. Bks. 21 Aug. 27/2 There is a suggestive piquancy to the notion of a quadrillionaire and a tax inspector falling for each other. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1690
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